Tune in TODAY to the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream! @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social will be talking to Sophie Song about what happens self-professed defenders of workers’ rights turn to chatbots for “research” TODAY, Nov 17, noon PDT: www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

🚨🎧 Don't miss the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream! @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social will be talking to Sophie Song about what happens self-professed defenders of workers’ rights turn to chatbots for “research” Mon, Nov 17, noon PDT www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Is AI really worth its environmental and societal costs? Join the discussion with @helsus.bsky.social, our lovely speakers Denise Utochin from @hdsai.sund.ku.dk & Sophie Song from @dairinstitute.bsky.social and panelists from The Good AI Lab and University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi!

“Judgments come with responsibilities. And responsibility lies with humans at the end of the day.” - Joy Buolamwini www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... An important and insightful article on the societal risks of #AI. (1/x) #AIEthics #DH

This is what it can look like when research is rooted in lived experience. A key piece of context on this report is that DAIR researcher Adrienne Williams is a former Amazon delivery driver and organizer herself, and the report builds on many in-depth interviews. ⬇️

🎧 NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast episode 65 - 'Crunching The Numbers' 📈 @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social talk to journalist @deccamuldowney.bsky.social about how so-called AI tools are infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis. 🔗 Below ⬇️

How automated control and surveillance endangers and harms us all from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at @dairinstitute.bsky.social drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Like, support vector machines and random forests are "AI" when it's convenient for these companies to try and skirt accountability, but when it comes time to do marketing, suddenly "AI" emerged in like 2022 and needs the power resources of a small country to do anything at all.

Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do. Artwork Credit: Bryn A-G, @brynstone These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio! —-------—----—-------—----

If you're in the Seattle area, join us in stretching our collective imagination muscles.

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POSSIBLE FUTURES WORKSHOP 🗣️ Looking for a fun, hopeful activity to stretch your imaginative muscle? 🌻 If you’re in the Seattle area, @dylnbkr.bsky.social will be hosting a free in person Possible Futures workshop on November 16 @ 2pm PST. 🪴 RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-prese... to attend.

I like to say, "turning researchers into fighters and fighters into researchers," following General Baker from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.

I’ve been included among the "100 Brightest Minds in Berlin's Science," a list published annually by Tagesspiegel and widely celebrated by Berlin universities.

Looks like a crucial new report on Amazon's algorithmic management just dropped - from Adrienne Williams, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and Sandra Barcenas at @dairinstitute.bsky.social

"If you access the public’s savings at scale, you should meet the public’s disclosure standards." ... seems like a good principle to minimize harmful bubbles www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-a-su...

Tune in at 8pm BST/3pm EDT/12pm PDT today to catch the live recording of the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast. It's an "All Hell" episode [email protected] and @alexhanna.bsky.social run thru the latest nightmare "AI" headlines! Watch it here: www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Join us today!

In our imagined future, research is... At 4S Seattle 2025, we invited participants to fill in the blank on paper stars. Together, these stars form an “imagination constellation”: glimpses into dreams of our alternative techno-futures. View the zine and join future events via the link in our bi

Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do. Artwork Credit: Adrienne, Middle School Teacher These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in our bio! —-------—---

this is brilliant work by the folks @dairinstitute.bsky.social I would love to chat with colleagues working on similar research in the EU! I am working on a repository of resistance tactics against the “future of work” with AI 🙏

Crimes like wage theft? 🙃😜 bsky.app/profile/dair...

Check out this powerful report by brilliant colleagues Adrienne Williams, Alex Hanna, and Sandra Barcenas, revealing how Amazon weaponizes technology to exploit its own workers.

Was awesome to be led by @dylnbkr.bsky.social in digging into hands-on imagining of positive technology futures. Not sure I 100% nailed the homework 😅 (at one point I had to be gently nudged to stop focusing on fascism lol), but amazing to be in this space with others.

In our imagined future, research is... At 4S Seattle 2025, we invited participants to fill in the blank on paper stars. Together, these stars form an “imagination constellation”: glimpses into dreams of our alternative techno-futures. View the zine and join future events via the link in our bi

Who gets to imagine our shared techno-future? All of us do. Artwork Credit: Margaret Mitchell, AI Researcher, @mmitchell.bsky.social These pieces were created at a Possible Futures workshop held on Sept. 6, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. View the zine and join future workshops via the link in ou

Our very own "Nyalleng Moorosi is part of a movement aimed at involving more African voices in AI policymaking" writes Abdullahi Tsanni for MIT Tech Review. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/22/1...

This project is an example of @alexhanna.bsky.social's vision for DAIR, she said she wanted to make researchers organizers and organizers researchers (something to that effect and I believe there's a related quote from someone else).🧵

Jemand im #blueLz, die auch noch #FKEP oder andere #BBS im Bereich Logistik, Transport oder e-commerce unterrichtet?

Just talked about this on the most recent episode of @techwontsave.us tech.yahoo.com/ai/deals/art...

I worked for a global grocery delivery company, they had cameras on the drivers’ faces. Tracking on the braking and more. If you yawned you lost points. Oh and the cameras were adding to street view for self drive cars. So everyone got to be part of the surveillance

stealing wages, hiding labor, intensifying poor working conditions & evading responsibility. Or what Amazon & other tech companies call Freedom, Progress & Innovation in a permissionless society. h/t @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Also @dairinstitute.bsky.social just released this report. bsky.app/profile/dair...

"Algorithmic tools force workers to rush their work and ... penalize workers for safe behaviors, like braking suddenly for obstacles or people in the street ... Drivers are then directed to complete remedial lessons on the Mentor apps ... for these infractions"

🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR: Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility. Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

Another in-person workshop is coming up, and we have a bigger venue this time! If you're in Seattle, come make art with me! 😁 (as a total aside, I'm extremely excited to work with this venue, it's a really cool all-ages art space that also sells incredible mead.)

We've got a new in-person workshop coming up in a few weeks! It's in Seattle on Sunday, November 16th, 2-5pm. Come make art with us! For more info and to reserve your (free) tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-prese...

Next Thursday, @timnitgebru.bsky.social, myself, and frontline translators will be at "From ICE Abductions to Genocide in Gaza, Language Workers Resist: A Language Justice Forum" hosted by Respond Crisis Translation. RSVP here: respondcrisistranslation.org/en/ljf-agenda

Para todos los que están celebrando el posible desembarco de OpenAI en la Patagonia Argentina en formato de Gigafábrica de mierda sintética, les sugerimos revisar un poco mejor el prontuario de la que están mal-catalogando como «empresa de vanguardia global» y de Scam Altman ⛔️🇦🇷

Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, in which @emilymbender.bsky.social and I will be joined by @dairinstitute.bsky.social's writer-in-residence @deccamuldowney.bsky.social to discuss AI and data journalism! Monday, Oct 20 at noon PT, twitch.tv/dair_institute

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

Sounds like a fascinating discussion! Sci-fi often warns us about the perils of tech. As Arthur C. Clarke said, “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them.” What do you think? 🪐

Honored to be invited on @dairinstitute.bsky.social's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 to talk about sci-fi, tech, and AI and whether it's true that "tech leaders just need to read better sci-fi." (Spoiler: I think no.) www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

El DAIR Institute está compuesto por un grupo interdisciplinario de investigadores, activistas e ingenieros ubicados en África, América del Norte y Europa, cuya labor se centra en exponer y mitigar/eliminar los daños reales causados por la IA. @dairinstitute.bsky.social www.dair-institute.org

In the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, journalist @reveleth.com joins @alexhanna.bsky.social & @emilymbender.bsky.social to talk about how tech bosses love science fiction novels, but can't seem to understand them! Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

In her Possible Futures entry, Kathleen Siminyu writes about creating an oral archive of her elders' knowledge. "Dialects carry unique histories, proverbs, and ways of naming the world" she writes. 📖 Read the piece at www.dair-institute.org/blog/tech-fo...

But striking the right balance between accuracy and accessibility when communicating is really tricky. Each engagement demands different timing, caters to different audiences, and allows different levels of depth. And I'm definitely trying to get better at it all!

I’ve always admired researchers like @dylnbkr.bsky.social who can communicate clearly, engagingly, and charmingly because I care deeply about producing knowledge that’s accessible and not just for the books. Our repository at Data Workers' Inquiry is a testimony of that: data-workers.org#Inquiries

And by Pedro Molina for @natgeoesp.bsky.social: www.nationalgeographic.com.es/tecnologia/m...